Tell Me the Truth About Love songs by Britten, Schumann, Boulanger, Chausson et al. / Amanda Roocroft, soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano

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Album Summary

Performers

• Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Joseph Middleton (Piano)

Composers

• Kurt Weill (Composer) (1900 - 1950)
• Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
• Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
• John Ireland (British Composer) (1879 - 1962)
• Thomas Dunhill (1877 - 1946)
• Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
• Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 - 1828)
• Samuel Barber (Composer) (1910 - 1981)
• Reynaldo Hahn (1875 - 1947)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Hugo Wolf (Composer) (1860 - 1903)
• Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
• Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932)
• Federico Mompou (1893 - 1987)
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
• Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
• Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Notes & Reviews:

Charting the course of a love affair - in song - through the eyes of a young woman who begins by asking the universal question, Tell me the truth about love presents a program of 19th and 20th century song. Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of Britain's most exciting singers, in opera, concert and recital and Joseph Middleton enjoys a busy and varied career as a chamber musician and song accompanist.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex (08/19/2011-08/26/2011).

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Works Details

Britten, Benjamin : Tell me the Truth about Love, for voice & piano (Cabaret Songs)

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex (08/19/2011-08/26/2011)
• Running Time: 5 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1937

Schumann, Robert : Seit ich ihn gesehen, song for voice & piano (Frauenliebe und -leben), Op. 42/1

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1840

Boulanger, Lili : Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre, for voice & piano (Clairières dans le ciel no 8)

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Wolf, Hugo : Italienisches Liederbuch II

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 04/12/1896

Chausson, Ernest : Le Charme, for voice & piano, Op. 2/2

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1879

Quilter, Roger : Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1904-1905

Loewe, Carl : Ich kann's nicht fassen, for voice & piano, Op. 60/3

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1836

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 70

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Notes: Composition written: 1884.
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1884

Ireland, John : The trellis, for voice & piano (from "Songs (2) (1920)")

• Performers: Joseph Middleton (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1920

Poldowski, Irena Regina : En sourdine, for voice & piano

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Strauss, Richard : Lieder (3), Op. 29

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1895

Dunhill, Thomas : Cloths of Heaven for voice & piano, Op. 30/3

• Performers: Joseph Middleton (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1912

Mompou, Federico : Damunt de tu nomes les flors, for voice & piano (Combat del somni no 1)

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942

Rachmaninov, Sergei : These summer nights, song for voice & piano, Op. 14/5

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1896

Bridge, Frank : Adoration, for voice & piano (or orchestra), H 57

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1905

Grieg, Edvard : Jeg elsker dig! (I Love Thee!), song for voice & piano, Op. 5/3

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1864

Wolf, Hugo : Geh', Geliebter, geh' jetzt!, song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 04/01/1890

Marx, Joseph : Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht

• Performers: Joseph Middleton (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49 :: Am Sonntag Morgen zierlich angethan, Op. 49/1

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1864-1868

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (9) for voice & piano, Op. 32 :: Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte, Op. 32/6

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1864

Schubert, Franz : Du liebst mich nicht, D 756

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 07/1822

Debussy, Claude : La Chevelure ("Il m'a dit 'cette nuit d'ai revé"), song for voice & piano, L. 90/2

• Performers: Joseph Middleton (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1887

Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) : Fleur jetée, Op. 39 no 2

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 05/25/1884

Schumann, Robert : Warnung ("Es geht der Tag zur Neige"), song for voice & piano, Op. 119/2

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1851

Barber, Samuel : Rain has Fallen, song for voice & piano, Op. 10/1

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1935

Copland, Aaron : Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson :: Heart, we will forget him

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1949-1950

Weill, Kurt [Composer] : Je ne t'aime pas (I Don't Love You), song for voice & piano

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Notes: Composition written: 1934.
• Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1934

Hahn, Reynaldo : Mélodies (20), Volume 1

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1891

Britten, Benjamin : Early one morning, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 5)

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Joseph Middleton (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1961